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01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

temperatures are to be found. The ponds could even be parked next to heavy CO2 emitters like cement factories and power plants so that the organisms can suck up excess carbon while churning out clean, renewable biocrude. Breakthroughs in... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

introduced in its current form in 1994, superseding Manufacturing and Corporate Strategy. EE: Has it changed much recently? Upton: The course is perpetually renewed through new cases and teaching material. The next session, for example,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Dec 2018
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An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

renewables (wind and solar), nuclear power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins (“fake meat”). Adaptation technologies, like flood defense and asset protection, also offer potential investment opportunities.... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
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Green Hydrogen in Chile

By: Tarun Khanna, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

In 2020, the Chilean government wants to promote green hydrogen, a technology with high potential to help mitigate climate change. President Sebastián Piñera, aware of the country's advantages to produce green hydrogen competitively, asks Energy Minister Juan Carlos... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Decision Making; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Instruments; Energy Policy; Government Administration; Strategy; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Energy Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile

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13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

partnerships. During Harvard’s Climate Week in April 2018, we organized guest speakers and activities including a candid conversation with David Crane, former CEO of NRG Energy, about his failed attempt to turn the company into a major View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Two Kinds of Green

ambitious goal is to be a “zero waste, zero carbon company, operating on 100 percent renewable energy in LEED certified buildings” by 2020. The case vividly documents some of the measures taken by Burt’s to meet that goal, such as a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Development, Organizational Behavior, and General Management. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-414 Enel: The Future of Energy Enel has transformed from the Italian state-owned energy monopoly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

seeking to pioneer radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past, these cases show, to renew itself for the future. [...] A New Lens On Growth One company that has used an... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

before returning home with enhanced perspectives and renewed energy for the challenges ahead. WSA: Celebrating Women's Accomplishments On Saturday, January 22, about eight hundred women gathered on campus for the ninth annual Women's... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Oct 2001
News

Helping Hands for HBS

translates into a heartfelt, intimate conversation about what a person is doing, what the family is involved in, and what the individual is interested in. I feel very fortunate to have those discussions with classmates." Whether a modest gesture or grand, whether... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

Candy to Renewable Energy? (A) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216072-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-073 Mars, Inc.: From Candy to Renewable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706036 Frederick Douglass Charter School: The Renewal Decision Harvard Business School Case 806-063 Five years after the launch of the Frederick Douglass Charter School, its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

devoted much attention to the subject of selling and marketing, but relatively little to salespeople until the 1990s. Why the initial neglect? What rekindled renewed interest in the peddler? A: It's as if Arthur Miller's Death of a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

would certainly be helpful. However, my preference would be for a carbon tax or some kind of cap-and-trade regime. We do have the beginnings of that in the renewable portfolio standard approach. With that said, one of the things that I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

February 2011
Supplement

The Fox Islands Wind Project (B)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Evan Richardson

Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Maine

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01 Dec 2002
News

The Campaign for Harvard Business School

of dollars) Priority Raised to date Goal % Raised Attracting the best students $83 $100 83 % Deepening the learning experience $113 $120 94 % Attracting and developing faculty $68 $100 68 % Increasing global impact and outreach $109 $100 109% View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

The cashew trees growing into a beautiful shady forest in Fass Koffe, a two-acre community garden in Senegal, are a sight to behold. “Visitors can’t take a step without stepping on a plant,” says Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977), chief operating officer for the Center for... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

03 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series

drastically reduce our carbon footprint, represented by advances in renewable energy such as with increased investment in geothermal power in Indonesia, or the construction of a pioneering energy-efficient headquarters in Chile that has... View Details

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent aggregation has led to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

around long after they have bought its products, the new listing will show GM's renewed ability to access the capital markets. For the federal government, the reduction in its ownership below 50% will underscore its ability to execute... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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